FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “THE HAGIOGRAPHY OF CYPRUS”
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
“THE HAGIOGRAPHY OF CYPRUS”
Paralimni-Cyprus, 9 – 12 February 2012
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
His Eminence Metropolitan of Constantia – Ammochostos Vasilios,
PhD Theology
Prof. Costas N. Constantinides
Faculty of Philosophy, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Ioannina, Greece
Prof. Constantinos Pitsakis
Faculty of Law, Demokritus University of Thrace, Greece
Prof. Theodoros Giangou
Faculty of Theology, Department of Pastoral and Social Theology,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Prof. Kriton Chrysochoides
Director of Research at the Institute of Byzantine Research,
National Foundation for Research, Greece
Dr Georgios Kakkouras
PhD Theology – Headmaster of a Secondary School
Presbyter Christodoulos Christodoulou
Theologian, Director of the Office for Spiritual Ministry,
Holy Metropolis of Constantia – Ammochostos
ADMINISTRATION
Presbyter Christodoulos Christodoulou, Theologian
Iliana Kaoura, Theologian
Christina Kakkoura, Historic Researcher
Xenia Panteli, Theologian
Tel. +35723812456/7 Fax. +35723812459
e-mail: [email protected]
STAFF
Oikonomos Andreas Christodoulou
Deacon Avgoustinos Kkaras
Deacon Aliaksei Ausiayevich
Antonios Jensen
Anastasios Spyrou
Philippos Philippou
Andreas Flokkas
Lazaros Lazarou
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
FOR THE ICON EXHIBITION ON THE SAINTS OF CYPRUS
Protopresbyter Iraklidios Xiouros
Presbyter Georgios Hadjiadamou
Deacon Andreas Papamichail
Deacon Ireneos Kyriakou
Sergios Sergiou, Painter and Renovator of Works of Art
SPEAKERS
- Alzati Cesare Angelo Maria, Professor, Department of Modern and Contemporary History, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Sacro Cuore), Milan, Italy.
- Alexakis Alexandros, Professor, Department of Philology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Ioannina, Greece.
- Chotzakoglou Charalambos, PhD Byzantology, Director of the World Forum for Religions and Cultures of the Holy Monastery of Kykkos; President of the Cypriot Studies Society, Cyprus.
- Chrysochoides Kriton, Director of Research at the Institute for Byzantine Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece.
- Chrysos Evangelos, Professor Emeritus, Department of History and Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Athens; Secretary General of the Hellenic Parliament Foundation for Parliamentarism and Democracy, Greece.
- Constantinides Costas N., Professor, Department of History and Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Ioannina, Greece.
- Economou Christos, Professor, Department of Pastoral and Social Theology, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
- Efthymiades Stefanos, Associate Professor, Open University of Cyprus.
- Giangou Theodoros, Professor, Department of Pastoral and Social Theology, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
- Hadjichristodoulou Christodoulos, PhD Archaeology, Cyprus.
- Ioakeim Fotios, Archimandrite, Theologian, Holy Metropolis of Nikopolis and Preveza, Greece.
- Ioannides Grigorios, Hieromonk, PhD Theology, Holy Metropolis of Trimythous, Cyprus.
- Joseph, Archbishop of the Maronite Church of Cyprus, PhD
- Kakkouras Georgios, PhD Theology, Headmaster of Secondary School, Cyprus.
- Karayianni Flora, PhD Archaeology, Head of the Office for Scientific Research at the European Centre of Byzantine and Post Byzantine Monuments.
- Krueger Derek, Joe Rosenthal Excellence Professor, Department of Religious Studies and Program Faculty, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC, U.S.A.; President of the Byzantine Studies Association of North America.
- Neofytos, Metropolitan of Morfou, Theologian and Lawyer, Church of Cyprus.
- Nicolaides Nicos, Professor, Department of Social Theology, Faculty of Theology, University of Athens, Greece.
- Papageorgiou Athanasius, Byzantologist, former Director of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.
- Paschalides Symeon, Associate Professor, Department of Pastoral and Social Theology, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
- Pitsakis Constantinos, Professor, Faculty of Law, Demokritus University of Thrace, Greece.
- Rapp Claudia, Professor, Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Vienna, Austria.
- Schizas Theocharis, Theologian, Editor of the “Cypria Menaia” («Κύπρια Μηναῖα»-Services and Lives of Cypriot Saints), Cyprus.
- Schrade Brigitta, Professor, Department of History and Art, Free University of Berlin, Germany.
- Talbolt, Alice-Mary, President Medieval Academy of America, Cambridge, MA, S.A.; Director of Byzantine Studies Emerita at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, U.S.A .
- Theocharides Ioannis, Professor, Department of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Humanitarian Studies, University of Cyprus.
- Tomea Giovanni Paolo, Professor, Department of Medieval, Humanistic and Renaissance Studies, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Sacro Cuore), Milan, Italy.
- Triantafyllopoulos Demetrios, Professor Emeritus, Department of History and Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cyprus.
- Tsetsis Georgios, Megas Protopresbyter of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, PhD Theology.
- Vasilios, Metropolitan of Constantia – Ammochostos, PhD Theology.
- Velenis Georgios, Professor Emeritus, Department of History and Archaeology, Faculty of the Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
- Yfantis Panayiotis, Assistant Professor, Department of Theology, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
PROGRAMME
Thursday, 9th February 2012
7:00 – 9:00
Matins and Divine Liturgy
Holy Monastery of Ayia Napa
Welcoming Greeting
H.E. Metropolitan of Constantia-Ammochostos, Vasilios
OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE
Grand Hall of the Holy Metropolis of Constantia – Ammochostos, Paralimni
10:00 – 10.45
Opening Speech
H.E. Metropolitan of Constantia-Ammochostos, Vasilios
Addresses:
- Georgios Demosthenous, Minister of Education and Culture
- Constantinos Christofides, Rector of the University of Cyprus
- Wolfgang Lenz, General Secretary of OIKOSNET EUROPE
Opening of the Conference
By His Beatitude Archbishop of Cyprus, Chrysostomos
Opening of the Exhibition of Icons of Saints of Cyprus
Old Church of Saint George, Paralimni
10:45 – 11.00: Break
SESSION I
11:00 – 13.00
Presentation A: Cyprus: “Island of Saints”
H.E. Metropolitan of Constantia-Ammochostos, Vasilios
Presentation B: Sanctity: The archetype and eschatological beauty of the image
Prof. Nicos Nicolaides
Presentation C: The individual characheristics of a saint and the process of his inclusion to the Cult Calendar
- Rev. Dr. Georgios Tsetsis
Presentation D: The Maronite community of Cyprus and the Cypriot Hagiography: Mutual influences
H.E. Archbishop of the Maronite Church of Cyprus, Joseph
* At the end of each presentation there will follow a 10 minute discussion period
SESSION II
16:00 – 18:00
Presentation A: Biblical Saints of Cyprus.
Prof. Christos Economou
Presentation B: The traditions of the ancient Church on Saint Barnabas and the development of his hagiographical profile in Byzantium
Prof. Symeon Paschalides
Presentation C: Topos, legend, historiocity : St. Barnabas in eastern and western iconography
Prof. Brigitta Schrade
Presentation D: Cyprus the Holy Island of Saintly Bishops
Prof. Evangelos Chrysos
18:00 – 18:30: Break.
SESSION III
18:30 – 20:00
Presentation A: Biblical Quotations and Liturgical Echoes in the Hagiography of Leontios of Neapolis: Scriptural Familiarity and the Culture of Reference in Seventh-century Cyprus
Prof. Derek Krueger
Presentation B: Cypriot Saints in 7th Century Hagiography: Nostalgia or Revival?
Prof. Claudia Rapp
Presentation C: Iconoclasm and Art in Cyprus: A critical study based on the historical sources and the monuments of Cyprus
Dr. Charalambos Chotzakoglou
Friday, 10th February 2012
SESSION IV
09:00 – 11:00
Presentation A: The Constantinopolitan Synaxarium and the Hagiography of Cyprus
Prof. Costas N. Constantinides
Presentation B: The contribution of the “Cypria Menaia” (Services and Lives of Cypriot Saints)
Mr. Theocharis Schizas
Presentation C: The Saints of Cyprus within the Latin hagiography (5th – 12th centuries)
Prof. Giovanni Paolo Tomea
Presentation D: Cypriot Liturgical Manuscripts and Hagiography
- Rev. Dr. Grigorios Ioannides
11:00 – 11:30 Break
SESSION V
11:30 – 13:30
Presentation A: Cypriot Hagiography and Palestine: A reciprocal relationship
Prof. Kriton Chrysochoides
Presentation B: The Literati and revival of Hagiography in the Early Palaiologan Period
Prof. Alice-Mary Talbot
Presentation C: Cypriot Hagiography and Art
Mr. Athanasios Papageorgiou
Presentation D: Hagiography of Cyprus, 16th – 19th centuries; Sources and Studies
Dr. Georgios Kakkouras
SESSION VI
16:00 – 17:30
Presentation A: Τhe Phenomenon of “neo–martyrs”
Prof. Ioannis Theocharides
Presentation B: Cypriot neo-martyrs: Typology and a legal approach
Prof. Constantinos Pitsakis
Presentation C: Canonical issues on the Lives of Cypriot Saints
Prof. Theodoros Giangou
17:30 – 17:45: Break.
SESSION VII
17:45 – 19:15
Presentation A: The Life of Saint Demetrianos of Kythrea; a different reading and approach
Prof. Stefanos Efthymiades
Presentation B: Saint and Apostle Barnabas and the Church of Milan. The ecclesiological significance of the Milanese version of a greek hagiographical tradition
Prof. Cesare Angelo Maria Alzati
Presentation C: The Cyprus of Saints within the poetry of George Seferis
Prof. Panayiotis Yfantis
19:15 – 20:00
“Cyprus of the East”: The common journey of Byzantine and Cypriot Music through the passing of the centuries
By the choir of the Holy Metropolis of Trimythous and the Musical Group
of the Cultural Society ‘Vasilitzia’.
Saturday, 11th February 2012
SESSION VIII
09:00 – 10:30
Presentation A: Tombs and Holy Wells of Cypriot Saints
Dr. Christodoulos Hadjichristodoulou
Presentation B: Ascetics of Byzantine Cyprus (4th -12th century); an introduction to reviewing the existing positions
- Rev. Fotios Ioakeim
Presentation C: Comments on the architecture of the octagonal church of Saint Hilarion which is in the castle of St Hilarion on the mountain range of Pentadaktylos; Place of worship of the Saint
Prof. Georgios Velenis and Dr. Flora Karayiannis
10:30 – 10:45 Break
SESSION IX
10:45 – 12:15
Presentation A: Saint Spyridon; Trimythous – Constantinople – Corfu: Three succeeding places of worship and his iconography
Prof. Demetrios Triantafyllopoulos
Presentation B: Saint Demetrianos of Chytri and Saint Leon of Catania: Lives in parallel?
Prof. Alexandros Alexakis
Presentation C: Asia Minor-Syropalestine: The spiritual “inner land” of Cyprus.
H.E. Metropolitan of Morfou, Neofytos
12:15 – 12:30
Hymns from the Service dedicated to the All Saints of Cyprus
By the choir of the Holy Metropolis of Constantia – Ammochostos
Director: Mr. Christos Psaltis
12:30: THE CONCLUSION OF THE CONFERENCE
Sunday, 12th February 2012
06:30 – 10:00
Divine Liturgy
Metropolitan Church of Saint George, Paralimni
Holy Metropolis of Constantia – Ammochostos
Cultural Academy “Saint Epifanios”
Tel. +35723812456/7 Fax. +35723812459
e-mail: [email protected]
Picture on the front cover: Cypriots saints (hierarchs): Spyridon, Hiraclidios, Lazaros, Auxibios, Trifyllios and Epifanios. Fresco (14th) within the sanctuary of the church Agios Nicolaos Stegis (World Heritage Monument of UNESCO), Kakopetria, Cyprus.